Eduqas GCSE History key terms

A child's freedom to travel or move around outside without adult supervision.

A person belonging to a population established in a region before its colonisation by outsiders.

Teaching people to accept a set of beliefs without encouraging independent questioning.

A weakening of industry’s ability to compete and maintain production, sales and employment.

The growth of factory production and industry, which changed employment, settlement and opportunities for leisure.

The quantity of goods produced by factories and other industries over a period of time.

Soldiers who fight on foot.

A ward or building where sick people receive care, including sick members of a monastery.

A general rise in prices, reducing what a given amount of money can buy.

A person who supplies information about other people to the authorities, sometimes secretly.

The practical systems needed to operate a place or event, such as electricity, water supplies, sanitation and transport arrangements.

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, signed by the USA and USSR in December 1987, which eliminated their intermediate- and shorter-range ground-launched missiles.

The historical practice of introducing smallpox material into a healthy person’s skin to produce an infection intended to protect against later smallpox. It could cause severe illness or death.

The extent to which different communities participate in shared social, economic or cultural life. Integration does not necessarily mean equal rights or the disappearance of religious differences.

Moving from one area to another within the same country to live, often in search of employment.

Detention without trial, used to confine people regarded as a threat during a conflict.

A historical explanation or judgement developed by selecting and analysing evidence.

The conflict between the papacy and secular rulers over authority to appoint and install church officials, particularly bishops.

People excluded from official unemployment figures, making unemployment appear lower than it really was.

The political and ideological division between Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe and the West, described by Winston Churchill in 1946.

Keeping infected people apart from others to reduce the risk of disease spreading.

The 1936 protest march by unemployed men from Jarrow to London to draw attention to their town’s unemployment and demand work.

A type of music developed by African American musicians, characterised by rhythmic variety and improvisation.

A member of a Catholic religious order whose missionary work sought to defend and spread Catholicism.

Laws enforcing racial segregation and discrimination, particularly in the Southern states of the USA.

Aggressive patriotism that celebrates national power and supports an assertive foreign policy or war.

A contest in which mounted knights used lances to try to knock their opponents from their horses.